How to Install and Uninstall bridge-utils Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "bridge-utils" package

Please follow the instructions below to install bridge-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bridge-utils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bridge-utils" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall bridge-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bridge-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bridge-utils package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: bridge-utils
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.5-9ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: ifupdown
Conflicts: ifupdown (<< 0.6.0)
Filename: pool/main/b/bridge-utils/bridge-utils_1.5-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 28610
MD5sum: a81ea7f42da2e7a6c32b866681897ad4
SHA1: b638bb6dda0f68cb2cbd59394657db33e8fd7ada
SHA256: e44d390cc6aa4c79c061335fe3dac584aea67c5eda9418a52a4076453a8ce002
Description-en: Utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge
This package contains utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet
bridge in Linux. The Linux Ethernet bridge can be used for connecting
multiple Ethernet devices together. The connecting is fully
transparent: hosts connected to one Ethernet device see hosts
connected to the other Ethernet devices directly.
Description-md5: bc06a038a6315377cf0871ca4de79aac
Multi-Arch: foreign
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: virt-host, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-touch